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Columbia, South Carolina state of South Carolina. Columbia, South Carolina City of Columbia Skyline of downtown Columbia Skyline of downtown Columbia Flag of Columbia, South Carolina Flag Official seal of Columbia, South Carolina Location in Richland County and the state of South Carolina Location in Richland County and the state of South Carolina Columbia, SC is positioned in South Carolina Columbia, SCColumbia, SC Location in South Carolina State South Carolina Columbia is the capital and biggest city of the U.S. State of South Carolina, with a populace of 133,803 as of 2015. The town/city serves as the governmental center of county of Richland County, and a portion of the town/city extends into neighboring Lexington County. It is the center of the Columbia urbane statistical area, which had a populace of 767,598 as of the 2010 United States Census, burgeoning to 810,068 by July 1, 2015, as stated to 2015 U.S. The name Columbia is a poetic term used for the United States, originating from the name of Christopher Columbus. The town/city is positioned approximately 13 miles (21 km) northwest of the geographic center of South Carolina, and is the major city of the Midlands region of the state. It lies at the confluence of the Saluda River and the Broad River, which merge at Columbia to form the Congaree River. Columbia is home to the University of South Carolina, the state's flagship and biggest university, and is also the site of Fort Jackson, the biggest United States Army installation for Basic Combat Training. In 1860, the town/city was the locale of the South Carolina Secession Convention, which marked the departure of the first state from the Union in the affairs dominant up to the Civil War. 5.1.1 Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center See also: Timeline of Columbia, South Carolina At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the region that became Columbia were a citizens called the Congaree. In May 1540, a Spanish expedition led by Hernando de Soto traversed what is now Columbia while moving northward. From the creation of Columbia by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1786, the site of Columbia was meaningful to the overall evolution of the state. One legislator insisted on the name "Washington", but "Columbia" won by a vote of 11 7 in the state senate. After remaining under the direct government of the council for the first two decades of its existence, Columbia was incorporated as a village in 1805 and then as a town/city in 1854. South Carolina State House from the 15th floor of the Main and Gervais Tower As one of the first prepared cities in the United States, Columbia began to expanded rapidly. Main article: Columbia, South Carolina, in the American Civil War Monument marking site of initial South Carolina State House, designed and assembled from 1786 to 1790 by James Hoban and burned by the Union Army in 1865 In 1801, South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) was established in Columbia. At the time, South Carolina sent more young men to England than did any other state. The leaders of South Carolina wished to monitor the progress and evolution of the school; for many years after the beginning of the university, commencement exercises were held in December while the state council was in session. Columbia became chartered as a town/city in 1854, with an propel mayor and six aldermen. Two years later, Columbia had a law enforcement consisting of a full-time chief and nine patrolmen. The town/city continued to expanded at a rapid pace, and throughout the 1850s and 1860s Columbia was the biggest inland town/city in the Carolinas. Cotton was the lifeblood of the Columbia community; in 1850 virtually all of the city's commercial and economic activeness was related to cotton. Masters also incessantly hired out slaves to Columbia inhabitants and establishments, including South Carolina College. Columbia's First Baptist Church hosted the South Carolina Secession Convention on December 17, 1860. Columbia's locale made it an ideal locale for other conventions and meetings inside the Confederacy. On February 17, 1865, in the last months of the Civil War, much of Columbia was finished by fire while being occupied by Union troops under the command of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Jeff Goodwyn, mayor of Columbia, sent William B. Firsthand accounts by small-town residents, Union soldiers, and a journal reporter offer a tale of revenge by Union troops for Columbia's and South Carolina's pivotal part in dominant Southern states to secede from the Union. Reporters, journalists, travelers, and tourists flocked to South Carolina's capital town/city to witness a Southern state council whose members encompassed former slaves. Sloan and the aldermen of the town/city of Columbia. The first several years of the 20th century saw Columbia emerge as a county-wide textile manufacturing center. In 1907, Columbia had six mills in operation: Richland, Granby, Olympia, Capital City, Columbia, and Palmetto. Columbia had no paved streets until 1908, when 17 blocks of Main Street were surfaced. The years 1911 and 1912 were something of a assembly boom for Columbia, with $2.5 million worth of assembly occurring in the city. In 1930, Columbia was the core of a trading region with approximately 500,000 potential customers. In 1934, the federal courthouse at the corner of Main and Laurel streets was purchased by the town/city for use as City Hall. Built of granite from close-by Winnsboro, Columbia City Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Copies of Mullet's initial drawings can be seen on the walls of City Hall alongside historic photos of Columbia's beginnings. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle and his group of now-famous pilots began training for the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo at what is now Columbia Metropolitan Airport. They trained in B-25 Mitchell bombers, the same model as the plane that now rests at Columbia's Owens Field in the Curtiss-Wright hangar. The area's populace continued to expanded amid the 1950s, having experienced a 40 percent increase from 186,844 to 260,828, with 97,433 citizens residing inside the town/city limits of Columbia. The University of South Carolina admitted its first black students in 1963; around the same time, many vestiges of segregation began to disappear from the city, blacks attained membership on various municipal boards and commissions, and a non-discriminatory hiring policy was adopted by the city. These and other such signs of ethnic progress helped earn the town/city the 1964 All-America City Award for the second time (the first being in 1951), and a 1965 article in Newsweek periodical lauded Columbia as a town/city that had "liberated itself from the plague of doctrinal apartheid." Historic preservation has played a momentous part in shaping Columbia into the town/city that it is today. In the early 1970s, the University of South Carolina initiated the refurbishment of its "Horseshoe". Several region exhibitions also benefited from the increased historical interest of that time, among them the Fort Jackson Museum, the Mc - Kissick Museum on the ground of the University of South Carolina, and most prominently the South Carolina State Museum, which opened in 1988. Mayor Kirkman Finlay, Jr., was the driving force behind the refurbishment of Seaboard Park, now known as Finlay Park, in the historic Congaree Vista district, as well as the compilation of the $60 million Palmetto Center package, which gave Columbia an office tower, parking garage, and the Columbia Marriott, which opened in 1983. The year 1980 saw the Columbia urbane populace reach 410,088, and in 1990 this figure had hit approximately 470,000. The Colonial Life Arena (formerly known as the Colonial Center) opened in 2002, and brought a several big-named concerts and shows to Columbia. The Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center opened in 2004, and a new meeting hall hotel opened in September 2007. The South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team won two National Championships in 2010 and in 2011. The 2010 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, under coach Steve Spurrier, earned their first appearance in the SEC Championship. In 2000, the Confederate battle flag was moved from the South Carolina State House to the Confederate monument. The fallout from the historic flooding in October 2015 forced the South Carolina Gamecocks football team to move their October 10 home game. Spirit Communications Park, home of the Columbia Fireflies, opened in April 2016. One of Columbia's more prominent geographical features is its fall line, the boundary between the upland Piedmont region and the Atlantic Coastal Plain, athwart which rivers drop as falls or rapids. Columbia interval up at the fall line of the Congaree River, which is formed by the convergence of the Broad River and the Saluda River. The town/city has capitalized on this locale which includes three rivers by christening itself "The Columbia Riverbanks Region". Columbia is positioned roughly halfway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Blue Ridge Mountains and sits at an altitude of around 292 ft (89 m). Approximately of Columbia's territory area, 81.2 square miles (210 km2), is contained inside the Fort Jackson Military Installation, much of which consists of uninhabited training grounds. The region averages 53 evenings below freezing, but extended cold or days where the temperature fails to rise above freezing are both rare. With an annual average of 5.4 days with 100 F (38 C)+ and 77 days with 90 F (32 C)+ temperatures, the city's current promotional slogan describes Columbia as "Famously Hot". Precipitation, at 44.6 inches (1,130 mm) annually, peaks in the summer months, and is the least amid spring and fall. Snowfall averages 1.5 inches (3.8 cm), but many years receive no snowfall. Like much of the southeastern U.S., the town/city is apt to inversions, which trap ozone and other pollutants over the area. Official extremes in temperature have ranged from 109 F (43 C) on June 29 and 30, 2012 down to 2 F ( 19 C), set on February 14, 1899, although a close second of 1 F ( 18 C) was recorded on January 21, 1985, and the University of South Carolina ground reached 113 F (45 C) on June 29, 2012, establishing a new state record high. Climate data for Columbia, South Carolina (Columbia Airport), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1887 present Main article: Columbia, South Carolina urbane region The urbane statistical region of Columbia is the second-largest in South Carolina; it has a populace of 810,068 as stated to the 2015 Enumeration estimates. Columbia's urbane counties include: Columbia's suburbs and environs include: There are 3 different Islamic musjids providing places of worship for more than 600 Muslim families living in Columbia. Columbia appreciates a diversified economy, with the primary employers in the region being South Carolina state government, the Palmetto Health hospital system, Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Palmetto GBA, and the University of South Carolina. The corporate command posts of Fortune 1000 energy company, SCANA, are positioned in the Columbia suburb of Cayce. Other primary employers in the Columbia region include Computer Sciences Corporation, Fort Jackson, the U.S. Army's biggest and most active initial entry training installation, Richland School District One, Humana/Tri - Care, and the United Parcel Service, which operates its Southeastern Regional Hub at the Columbia Metropolitan Airport. Major manufacturers such as Square D, CMC Steel, Spirax Sarco, Michelin, International Paper, Pirelli Cables, Honeywell, Westinghouse Electric, Harsco Track Tech, Trane, Intertape Polymer Group, Union Switch & Signal, FN Herstal, Solectron, and Bose Technology have facilities in the Columbia area. The gross domestic product (GDP) of the Columbia urbane statistical region as of 2010 was $31.97 billion, the highest among MSAs in the state. Several companies have their global, continental, or nationwide headquarters in Columbia, including Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company, the second-largest supplemental insurance business in the nation; the Ritedose Corporation, a pharmaceutical trade services company; Ag - First Farm Credit Bank, the biggest bank headquartered in the state with over $30 billion in assets (the non-commercial bank is part of the Farm Credit System, the biggest agricultural lending organization in the United States which was established by Congress in 1916); South State Bank, the biggest commercial bank headquartered in South Carolina; Nexsen Pruet, LLC, a multi-specialty company law firm in the Carolinas; Spectrum Medical, an global medical software company; Wilbur Smith Associates, a full-service transit and transit framework consulting firm; and Nelson Mullins, a primary national law firm. CSC's Financial Services Group, a primary provider of software and outsourcing services to the insurance industry, is headquartered in the Columbia suburb of Blythewood. The town/city of Columbia has recently accomplished a number of urban redevelopment projects and has a several more planned. The historic Congaree Vista, a 1,200-acre (5 km2) precinct running from the central company precinct toward the Congaree River, features a number of historic buildings that have been rehabilitated since its revitalization begun in the late 1980s. This won Columbia an award from the International Downtown Association. The Vista precinct is also where the region's meeting hall and anchor Hilton hotel with a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse restaurant are located. A downtown lightpost banner heralds Columbia's "New Main Street" as part of an accomplishment to reinfuse life and vitality into Main Street. Near the end of Gervais is the South Carolina State Museum and the Ed - Venture Children's Museum. At full build-out, the evolution will have 750 residentiary units and provides access to Columbia's waterfront. Notable developments instead of in recent years along Main Street include an 18-story, $60 million fortress at the high-profile corner of Main and Gervais streets, the renovation of the 1441 Main Street office building as the new Midlands command posts for Wells Fargo Bank (formerly Wachovia Bank), a new sanctuary for the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, the locale of Mast General store in the historic Efird's building, and the relocation of the Nickelodeon theater. Known formally as Columbia Common, this universal will consist of rehabbing a several historic buildings on the ground for residentiary, hospitality, and retail use. A new minor league baseball stadium was recently assembled on the ground as well. Located a block from the University of South Carolina campus, its playhouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Founded more than 20 years ago, Trustus brought a new dimension to theatre in South Carolina's capital city. Patrons have the opportunity to watch new shows directly from the stages of New York as well as classic shows rarely seen in Columbia. In operation since 1979, "the Nick", run by the Columbia Film Society, is home to two film screenings each evening and an additional matinee three days a week. The Nick is the only non-profit art home film theater in South Carolina and is the home for 25,000 filmgoers each year. The South Carolina Shakespeare Company performs the plays of Shakespeare and other classical works throughout the state. Workshop Theatre of South Carolina opened in 1967 as a place where region administrators could practice their craft. The theatre produces musicals and Broadway fare and also brings new theatrical material to Columbia. The South Carolina State Museum is a elected exhibition with exhibits in science, technology, history, and the arts. The Columbia Museum of Art features changing exhibits throughout the year. Ed - Venture is one of the South's biggest children's exhibitions and the second biggest in South Carolina. It is positioned next to the South Carolina State Museum on Gervais Street. Mc - Kissick Museum is positioned on the University of South Carolina campus. The exhibition homes a diverse compilation of artifacts from the South Carolina confederate period. The South Carolina State Library provides library services to all people of South Carolina through the interlibrary loan service utilized by the enhance libraries positioned in each county. The Columbia City Ballet is Columbia's ballet company, offering more than 80 primary performances annually. The South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra is Columbia's resident orchestra. Renowned musicians come to Columbia to perform as guest artists with the orchestra. In April 2008 Morihiko Nakahara was titled the new Music Director of the Philharmonic. The Columbia City Jazz Dance Company, formed in 1990 by creative director Dale Lam, was titled one of the "Top 50 Dance Companies in the USA" by Dance Spirit magazine. Columbia City Jazz specializes in modern, lyrical, and percussive jazz dance styles and has performed locally, regionally, and nationally in exhibitions, competitions, improve functions, and global tours in Singapore, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and Austria. Movies filmed in the Columbia region include The Program, Renaissance Man, Chasers, Death Sentence, A Guy Named Joe, and Accidental Love/Nailed. Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center The Columbia Metropolitan Convention, which opened in September 2004 as South Carolina's only downtown meeting hall, is a 142,500-square-foot (13,240 m2), modern, state-of-the-art facility designed to host a range of meetings and conventions. The chief exhibit hall contains almost 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2) of space; the Columbia Ballroom over 18,000 square feet (1,700 m2); and the five meeting rooms ranging in size from 1500 to 4,000 square feet (400 m2) add another 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2) of space. Koger Center for the Arts provides Columbia with theatre, music, and dance performances that range from small-town acts to global acts. The facility seats 2,256 persons. The facility is known for hosting diverse affairs, from the State of the State Address to the South Carolina Body Building Championship and the South Carolina Science Fair. Township Auditorium seats 3,099 capacity and is positioned in downtown Columbia. Columbia Fireflies Baseball 2016 South Atlantic (A) Spirit Communications Park 3,785 The Bantams base of operations is in Greenwood, South Carolina, though the team plays a several home games in Columbia. The most prominent sports in Columbia are the sports programs at the University of South Carolina. Williams-Brice Stadium is the home of the USC Gamecocks' football team and is the 24th biggest college football stadium in the nation. It seats 80,250 citizens and is positioned just south of downtown Columbia. Colonial Life Arena, opened in 2002, is Columbia's premier arena and entertainment facility. Seating 18,000 for college basketball, it is the biggest arena in the state of South Carolina, and the tenth biggest on-campus basketball facility in the nation, serving as the home of the men's and women's USC Gamecocks basketball teams. Located on the University of South Carolina campus, this facility features 41 suites, four entertainment suites, and the Frank Mc - Guire Club, a full-service hospitality room with a capacity of 300. Seating 8,400 permanently for college baseball and an additional 1,000 for standing room only, it is the biggest baseball stadium in the state of South Carolina, and serves as the home of the University of South Carolina Gamecocks' baseball team. Located near Granby Park near downtown Columbia, this facility features entertainment suites, a picnic terrace, and a dining deck. The stadium is the home for the Columbia Fireflies, a Minor League Baseball team playing in the South Atlantic League. Columbia had been without minor league baseball since the Capital City Bombers relocated to Greenville, South Carolina, in 2004. This 18-acre (73,000 m2) park has had two lives; first dedicated in 1859 as Sidney Park, titled in honor of Algernon Sidney Johnson, a Columbia City Councilman, the park experienced an illustrious but short tenure. In 1992, the park was retitled Finlay Park, with respect to Kirkman Finlay, a past mayor of Columbia who had a vision to reenergize the historic Congaree Vista district, between Main Street and the river, and recreate the site that was formerly known as Sidney Park. This park was created to serve as a memorial to those who served their nation and presently has monuments honoring the USS Columbia warship and those that served with her amid World War II, the China-Burma-India Theater Veterans of WWII, casualties of the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7, 1941, who were from South Carolina, Holocaust survivors who live in South Carolina as well as concentration camp liberators from South Carolina, and the State Vietnam War Veterans. The park was dedicated in November 1986 along with the unveiling of the South Carolina Vietnam Monument. In November 2014, Columbia native and resident of Boston, Henry Crede, gave a bronze statue and plaza in the park dedicated to his WWII comrades who served in the Navy from South Carolina. Granby Park opened in November 1998 as a gateway to the rivers of Columbia, adding another access to the many river activities available to residents. Granby is part of the Three Rivers Greenway, a fitness of green spaces along the banks of the rivers in Columbia, adding another piece to the long-range plan and eventually connecting to the existing Riverfront Park. In the Five Points precinct of downtown Columbia is the park dedicated to the impact and memory of the most jubilated civil rights prestige in America, Martin Luther King Jr. Situated along the meandering Congaree River in central South Carolina, Congaree National Park is home to champion trees, primeval forest landscapes, and diverse plant and animal life. The park's adjacency to downtown Columbia and three primary interstate highways attracts both small-town inhabitants and travelers. This was titled the Three Rivers Greenway, and the $18 million estimated cost was agreed to by member governments (the metros/cities of Cayce, Columbia, and West Columbia) with the proviso that the Alliance recommend an acceptable funding strategy. While the funding process was underway, an existing town/city of Columbia site positioned on the Congaree River offered an opportunity to be a pilot universal for the Three Rivers Greenway. Running beside the historic Columbia Canal, Riverfront Park hosts a two and a half-mile trail. Other parks in the Columbia region include: Columbia City Hall The town/city of Columbia has a council-manager form of government. Unlike other mayors in council-manager systems, the Columbia mayor has the power to veto ordinances passed by the council; vetoes can be overridden by a two-thirds majority of the council, which appoints a town/city manager to serve as chief administrative officer. See related article Past mayors of Columbia, South Carolina The city's law enforcement is the Columbia Police Department. The South Carolina Department of Corrections, headquartered in Columbia, operates a several correctional facilities in Columbia. They include the Broad River Correctional Institution, the Goodman Correctional Institution, the Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institution, the Stevenson Correctional Institution, and the Campbell Pre-Release Center. Graham homes the state's female death row. The state of South Carolina's execution chamber is positioned at Broad River. Mc - Entire Joint National Guard Station is under command of the South Carolina Air National Guard. Columbia is home to the chief campus of the University of South Carolina, which was chartered in 1801 as South Carolina College and in 1906 as the University of South Carolina. The college has 350 degree programs and enrolls 31,964 students throughout fifteen degree-granting universities and schools. It is an urban university, positioned in downtown Columbia. Columbia is also home to: Columbia College Founded in 1854, Columbia College is a private, four-year, liberal arts college for women with a coeducational Evening College and Graduate School. Columbia International University is a biblically based, private Christian institution committed to "preparing men and women to know Christ and to make Him known." ECPI University Columbia ground also has programmatic accreditation for Medical Assisting with the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools. The wooded 17-acre (69,000 m2) ground is situated up on Seminary Ridge in Columbia, the highest point in the Midlands area, near the geographic center of the city. Midlands Technical College Midlands Tech is part of the South Carolina Technical College System. South Carolina School of Leadership Established in 2006, South Carolina School of Leadership (SCSL) is a post-secondary "gap year" school with an intense focus on Christian discipleship and leadership development. SCSL uses curriculum from Valley Forge Christian College. Columbia is also the site of a several extension campuses, including those for Erskine Theological Seminary, South University, and the University of Phoenix. Columbia Jewish Day School Montessori School of Columbia See also: List of newspapers in South Carolina, List of airways broadcasts in South Carolina, and List of tv stations in South Carolina Columbia's daily newspapers include The State and Cola Daily, and its alternative newspapers include Free Times, The Columbia Star, Carolina Panorama Newspaper, and SC Black News. Columbia Metropolitan Magazine is a bi-monthly printed announcement about news and affairs in the urbane area. Q-Notes, a bi-weekly journal serving the LGBT improve and presented in Charlotte, is distributed to locations in Columbia and via home bringy. Columbia is home to the command posts and manufacturing facilities of South Carolina Educational Television and South Carolina Public Radio, the state's enhance tv and enhance radio networks. Columbia has the 78th biggest tv market in the United States. Network affiliates include WIS (NBC), WLTX (CBS), WACH (FOX) and WOLO (ABC). Radio stations in the Columbia, South Carolina market Broadcast tv in the Midlands of South Carolina, including Columbia The Comet, officially the Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority, is the agency responsible for operating mass transit in the greater Columbia region including Cayce, West Columbia, Forest Acres, Arcadia Lakes, Springdale, Lexington and the St. COMET operates express shuttles, as well as bus service serving Columbia and its immediate suburbs. The authority was established in October 2002 after SCANA released ownership of enhance transit back to the town/city of Columbia. Routes into downtown Columbia originating from Camden, Newberry, and Batesburg-Leesville are in consideration, as is a potential line between Columbia and Charlotte connecting the two mainlines of the future Southeastern High Speed Rail Corridor. Columbia's central locale between the populace centers of South Carolina has made it a transit focal point with three interstate highways and one interstate spur. I-26 (SC).svg I-26 Interstate 26 travels from northwest to southeast and joins Columbia to the other two primary population centers of South Carolina: the Greenville-Spartanburg region in the northwestern part of the state and North Charleston Charleston region in the southeastern part of the state. I-77 (SC).svg I-77 Interstate 77 begins at a junction with Interstate 26 south of Columbia and travels north to Rock Hill and Charlotte. Army's biggest training base and one of Columbia's biggest employers. South Carolina 12.svg SC 12 South Carolina 16.svg SC 16 South Carolina 48.svg SC 48 South Carolina 215.svg SC 215 South Carolina 262.svg SC 262 South Carolina 277.svg SC 277 South Carolina 555.svg SC 555 South Carolina 760.svg SC 760 South Carolina 768.svg SC 768 The town/city and its surroundings are served by Columbia Metropolitan Airport (IATA: CAE, ICAO: KCAE, FAA LID: CAE). The town/city is served daily by Amtrak station, with the Silver Star trains connecting Columbia with New York City, Washington, DC, Savannah, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, and Miami. Greyhound Lines formerly directed a station on Gervais Street, in the easterly part of downtown, providing Columbia with intercity bus transportation. There routes include stops in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Washington, DC, and New York City, New York. Providence Hospital, positioned in downtown Columbia, was established by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Augustine in 1938. The facility offers cardiac care through Providence Heart Institute, which is considered a character cardiac center in South Carolina. Palmetto Health is a South Carolina nonprofit enhance benefit corporation consisting of Palmetto Health Richland and Palmetto Health Baptist hospitals (2locations; 1 downtown and 1 in the Harbison area) in Columbia. Palmetto Health Richland is the major teaching hospital for the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. The Palmetto Health South Carolina Cancer Center offers patient services at the Palmetto Health Baptist and Palmetto Health Richland campuses; both are recognized by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer as a Network Cancer Program. Lexington Medical Center is a network of hospitals urgent care centers that are all positioned throughout Lexington County, South Carolina. The chief hospital is in West Columbia. The hospital provides primary, secondary, and some tertiary care. An affiliation is held with the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, positioned on the hospital grounds. Main article: List of citizens from Columbia, South Carolina News & World Report as one of the best places to retire, citing locale and median housing price as key contributors. As of July 2013 Columbia was titled one of "10 Great Cities to Live In" by Kiplinger Magazine. The town/city of Columbia has 6 sister cities: South Carolina portal Columbia High School (Columbia, South Carolina) Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad, historic barns Columbia South Carolina Temple, an operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Columbia Theological Seminary, formerly in Columbia, South Carolina, now in Decatur, Georgia Official records for Columbia were kept at downtown from June 1887 to December 1947, and at Columbia Airport since January 1948. "Columbia city, South Carolina". City of Columbia Official Web Site. 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